In the second round of the heavyweight duel the victory was awarded to the GeForce GTX 480 SLI tandem. But AMD graphics division hasn’t yet said its final word: today a ripple-GPU CrossFire configuration will try to win the leadership back.

Performance in Synthetic and Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

We minimize the CPU’s influence by using the Extreme profile (1920x1200, 4x FSAA and anisotropic filtering). We also publish the results of the individual tests across all resolutions.

Overclockers and benchmarkers should appreciate the performance of the 3-way CrossFire platform in 3DMark as it scores over 19,000 points. It is much faster than the Radeon HD 5870 CrossFire tandem.

The main opponents differ more in the second test than in the first one, the Radeon HD 5800 3-way CrossFire being in the lead at every resolution.

Unigine Heaven Benchmark

GF100-based solutions are always strong in this test, and the AMD platform cannot win even in the 3-way configuration, although it outperforms the GeForce GTX 470 SLI tandem in terms of average performance. The GeForce GTX 400 delivers a higher bottom speed, though.